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Mexico's outgoing president vows to pursue changes to Constitution despite market nervousness
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Outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador shows his ID after voting in general elections in Mexico City, Sunday, June 2, 2024. - photo by AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s outgoing president pledged Friday to press ahead with j udicial reforms despite nervousness among investors and suggestions from his own handpicked successor that he should go slow. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would pursue 20 constitutional changes after his Morena party won a two-thirds majority in Congress in Sunday’s elections, including making all judges run for election and enshrining a series of unfunded benefit mandates in the Constitution. Sunday's elections ensured that Claudia Sheinbaum, the candidate of López Obrador's Morena party, will be the next president.